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LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif will inaugurate the 5th meeting of the Asian Cotton Research and Development Network today (Wednesday) at a local hotel. According to spokesman of the Punjab Agriculture Department, the conference would continue from February 23 to 25 and attended by a large number of agricultural scientists, experts, exporters and farmers including foreign delegates from India, Iran, Turkey, Uzbekistan, China, Bangladesh, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan

LAHORE - The Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that vast investment opportunities in livestock, dairy farming and energy sectors are available in Punjab. He added that the Punjab government wanted to learn expertise of Denmark in order to improve various sectors. Joint ventures, beneficial for both countries, can be launched in dairy farming and energy for this purpose.
He was talking to Ambassador of Denmark in Pakistan Uffe Wolffhechel, who called on him here

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif must implement the 19-point agenda of PPP in compliance with his commitments with their coalition partner, Pakistan People's Party (PPP) parliamentary leader Raja Riaz Ahmad said talking to journalists at his office on Friday.
Raja Riaz stressed that the committee's earlier constitution must be implemented as was suggested. He continued to urge Shahbaz Sharif to form a committee to implement as per his assurance to him during a

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif apparently have a different stance on their future political strategy, with the PML-N chief aspiring to continue politics of reconciliation in the larger national interest and Shahbaz proposing the exact opposite.
In a meeting with a delegation of the Pakistan Business Council on Friday, Shahbaz exploded unprovoked when Nawaz talked about continuing politics of

ISLAMABAD - Former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi had a "closed doors" meeting with Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif at Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan's residence on Tuesday. Online sources said Qureshi went to offer condolences over the death of Nisar's mother, knowing that Shahbaz would be there. The sources insisted it was not a coincidence.
"The interaction between Qureshi and PML-N leaders was somewhat planned and was intended to give out a message to

LAHORE - The Sharifs met at Raiwind on Friday to take up their concerns over the non-responsive attitude of the federal government in reply to a letter the Punjab government wrote seeking details on Raymond Davis.
The letter had also sought the Centre's influence over the US embassy to allow the custody of the car and driver of the US Consulate Lahore that ran over a motorcyclist in the Lahore incident. The Sharif Brothers also discussed the PPP's 19-point agenda. They also

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Governor Latif Khosa on Monday agreed to run the affairs of the province with mutual consultation and cooperation, deciding not to bring up the past in their future dealings. The two leaders reached the decision during a one-on-one meeting held at Governor's House.
The meeting was scheduled at 9am but it started about half hour late, and the agenda was not made public. Addressing a joint press conference after their meeting,

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has revealed that the federal government had planned to implicate him and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif in the murder of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer after "colouring the assassination as a political design".
"All was set to get a case registered under Section 302 against us, but the prime minister opposed the decision," Nawaz spilled the beans in his address at a book launching ceremony on Friday.

LAHORE - Terrorism will have to be rooted-out in the national interest, as anti-nation forces are bent upon destroying peace and law and order and there is a need for unity to foil their nefarious designs, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Thursday.
He was chairing a meeting to review various aspects of the Urdu Bazaar bomb blast and pace of investigation into the matter. Shahbaz said that nothing could be more important than maintenance of peace in the existing

LAHORE - Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif is sick for the past few days and has been unable to attend to all his official assignments and duties, an official at Chief Minister Secretariat told Pakistan Today.
"He is attending office daily, holding meetings and receiving delegations. But considering his ailing condition, he has slashed 50 percent his official workload and is not going outside," the source added.
According to another senior official, CM was staying

DASKA - Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif has directed the elected representatives, concerned officials and the district heads of the nation-building departments to ensure the transparent utility of the development funds for the social welfare, besides ensuring the maximum benefits of these developmental schemes to the local people.
Addressing an important meeting of the local elected representatives held for reviewing the pace of the ongoing development projects in

LAHORE - Indigenous resources need to be harnessed to achieve economic prosperity, Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif said while introducing the Star Farm Model at the inaugural session of Star Farm Initiative Suppliers Conference 2011 at chief minister's Secretariat on Monday.
He said that development of agriculture, livestock and dairy farming sectors are essential to achieve economic stability and to decrease dependency, adding that the introduction of Star Farm

ISLAMABAD: The claims of champions of good governance seldom turn out to be realistic, as is evident from the outstanding utility dues against Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif's son, Hamza Shahbaz, who is a member of the National Assembly.
Hamza has so far not cleared utility bills amounting to Rs 452,278 of the parliamentary suite that he had been occupying until last month.
Per details, Hamza was allotted suite No C-107 in the Parliament Lodges, which was transferred

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that there are vast opportunities of investment in banking and other sectors in Pakistan, especially Punjab and that the government would provide all possible facilities to investors.
He said this during a meeting with the chief executive officer of Burj Khalifa, and representatives of companies such as Emaar, Habib Bank and Oman Insurance on Sunday. The meeting discussed matters regarding facilities for investment in

ISLAMABAD: Blasphemy laws have been misused, especially against the minorities, Federal Minister Minorities Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti said while talking to reporters after a consultation meeting with representatives of religious minorities on Saturday.
The laws should be repealed after discussions among the Ulema from all school of thoughts, representatives of civil societies and scholars, he said.
Earlier, the meeting arranged by All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA),

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif gave a briefing to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif about the low-cost Ashiyana Housing Scheme on Friday. The CM said that the project for providing houses to low-income people had started in Lahore and would be extended throughout Punjab.
He said that 26 sites have been identified for the scheme in various districts of the province. Shahbaz informed Nawaz that the housing project was a welfare scheme of the

LAHORE: A World Bank delegation, led by Country Director Rachid Benmessaoud, called on Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif here on Friday and discussed with him implementation of various ongoing WB programmes as well as cooperation in several sectors.
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